Tony and Britney Guerra house fire Sorrento

HyperMED Case Study BG

Cerebral Palsy complex ‘deep seated’ (basal ganglia) development issues including delayed development; gross seizures, gross autistic responses; no speech

‘Kylie, BG's mother shares BG's amazing success and hope that this report can give somebody else some positive hope. We still have a long way to go but I’m amazed to see where BG is today.

Kylie reports BG received a head injury at birth, and due to the cord being wrapped around her neck multiple times during utero she also has cerebral under developed fibers in her cerebellum nd basal ganglia (base of brain). When BG was born [over term at 42+ weeks] she weighed only 5 1/2 pounds, small head circumference and having seizures along with slow EEG.

Kylie reports that BG's doctors and therapists weren’t confident with BG's outlook, intellectually and physically. At 10 months old BG rolled but didn’t sit until she crawled at 18 months of age. BG has high muscle tone with just a little spasticity, her coordination was always good although she tired and forgot after a while. At 3 yrs old BG's EEG was normal so medication was ceased. At 4 yrs old BG had botox, 3 days later she took her first steps. With all of this BG continued to need help to accomplish these goals. So by this stage BG's physical disability was looking to be promising but she was still very rigid. As far as her intellectual level this was unknown. At 4 yrs old she started to engage in eye contact but only for a brief moment, and a lot of the time couldn’t follow basic instruction, she was also very loud, screaming a lot, but she has no speech and has poor fine motor skills and average gross motor skills.

Just after BG walked at 4 yrs old she began HBOT. Kylie reports 'to be honest I was looking for instant and dramatic results. But as I know now with BG I needed a good foundation before seeing dramatic results. At the 60 hr stage, during our break at HBOT session, I took BG for a walk to the park, she started RUNNING ahead of me and this was the first change I noticed with BG. I continued with HBOT and reached 100 hrs. I noticed BG's intellectual ability improving slightly during this stage. We had a break for 3 months, after this I started seeing huge changes.'

Kylie (mother) reports - 'one particular day BG was protesting in stamping her feet and screaming because we told her she was not going where she wanted, then BG replied “YES I AM’, I couldn’t believe my ears. I asked my speech therapist about this and she replied saying that obviously BG had a connection and that this is very rare. Unfortunately BG has not spoke like this again, but I now know she is capable of speech later.'

BG is now nodding for yes and no and uses a picture communication book very well. BG now also rides a bike independently very well and can also steer around witch’s hats; KG states she is now running to keep up with her. KG reports that BG is now uses a fork and spoon to feed herself, she stabs or scoops her food, then puts it in her mouth, when will wipe her mouth with her spoon if needed, she also now attempts to use a knife. KG states BG is still a bit messy but who cares!

During the last visit with her pediatrician, the doctor asked BG to come in and stand on the scales, she did this to the doctor’s amazement, so the doctor kept asking BG to do things and she responded. The doctors last request was ‘BG can you stand on the stool and climb onto the bed and lay down for me”, when she did this without delay the dr turned to me with his mouth dropped. When also measuring BG's head circumference, BGs head growth is now climbing to normal range, this has only started to happen since HBOT. The doctors comment were “whatever you are doing with BG, keep doing it. She amazing.” KG states she asked the doctor if he thought BG had an intellectual disability and he said I’m not sure because she has no speech, but if she does its only minimal.

KG states that on one occasion she locked ourselves outside of the house, meanwhile BG was the only one still inside the house, 'it was early morning I hadn’t opened the blinds in the bedrooms as yet and I knew BG was down the other end of the house near the bedrooms. Every external door of the house was deadlocked except for the one I pulled shut behind me. I was then thinking “now this is a test for BG, I cant give her eye contact or signal to open the door because she at the other end of the house, and even if she could see me, a year ago the same thing happened and BG could see me and she couldn’t follow instruction, so I had to call a lock smith”. So there I was banging on the kitchen window yelling BG come and open the door for mum, I repeated this about 3 times in a row, then raced around to the lounge window to see if she was there. Then I heard a banging on the door I had locked and it was BG trying to get my attention, I turned the door handle, BG had unlocked it for me. [This lock you need to turn a fiddly little latch to open it, not bad for some-one who has no fine motor skills!!] I opened the door and hugged her and told her how clever she is. BG was also very pleased in herself. This whole process only took about 3 minutes. So BG responded immediately.'

BG now is also exceptional on the computer at school; she uses a mouse with ease and also uses the touch screen. BG plays the aim and shoot games on the computer and doest miss a thing. KG states that her neurologist stated you require your cerebellum to be able to do this, and this is one of BG’s affected areas? BG now can also travel on public transport and go to public places with out her screaming.

BG now has done about 170 hrs of HBOT over a 12 month period and KG reports BG will require more HBOT treatments. KG reports that BG still is impaired in a lot of ways but, 'she’s 200% better than before, and she is only 5 yrs old, how exciting. Thanks Mal',

Kind regards KG (mother).’

A FATHER is being hailed a hero after dragging his wife from their burning house, then returning to try to save his 10-year-old daughter before both succumbed to the blaze.

Tony Guerra, 43, and his wife, Kylie, 38, smashed windows to flee their house at Sorrento in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula after the fire started about 7am yesterday.

When the couple realised their daughter Brittany was not with them, Mr Guerra ran back inside the burning house, where he was overcome by smoke.

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Firefighters dragged him from the home and tried to resuscitate him but he died at the scene.

Brittany's body was found inside the house.

Mr Guerra's brother John told the Nine Network that ''they had held Brittany by the hand but she slipped away''.

Mrs Guerra was taken to Frankston Hospital in a stable condition suffering shock and smoke inhalation.

An Ambulance Victoria paramedic, David Llewellyn, said it appeared Brittany, who had an intellectual disability, became disoriented and lost in the heavy smoke.

''The parents were aware of the fire and they've broken windows and the child went missing and the dad looks like he's gone back in and died trying to get the daughter out,'' he said.

Mr Llewellyn said the incident was a warning for all to have a fire contingency plan in place.

''But you'll never stop parents going back in looking for their children,'' the paramedic said.

Police are yet to determine the cause of the blaze.

Another family escaped injury after a fire engulfed their home in Sydney. A man, 30, and his partner, 25, and three boys, aged seven, five and two, were inside their Rydalmere home on Victoria Road about 9.15pm on Saturday when a smoke detector alerted them to a fire in the kitchen.

The family were able to quickly leave the house.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/dad-dies-in-attempt-to-save-daughter-from-fire-20110619-1ga95.html#ixzz1PlFONQBJ

TO his family, Tony Guerra was a loyal father, husband, brother and son.

A man who would do anything for his girls.

Yesterday the proud family man paid the ultimate price for his loyalty, dying as he bravely fought to save his wife and daughter from their burning family home.

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Tony and his 10-year-old daughter, Brittany, died in a fire that broke out in his Sorrento property about 7 o'clock yesterday morning.

Family members said his wife of almost 20 years, Kylie, woke to discover their TV room's curtain on fire and daughter Brittany standing nearby.

As smoke billowed throughout the home, it is believed Tony and Kylie struggled to get their daughter to safety.

Tony then smashed the room's window and dragged Kylie, who was severely affected by smoke, out the broken window. In the confusion, the couple lost sight of Brittany.

Kylie told family members she remembers Tony then passing out, presumably from smoke inhalation.

Tony's brother, John, told the Herald Sun: "Kylie said that (Tony) passed out, but then got back up again and ran around the other side (to look for Brittany) and that was the last she saw of him. She never got to see him again."

Tony was later dragged from the home, with paramedics working for almost an hour to resuscitate him.

He died at the scene while Brittany was found in the kitchen area of the house. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.

Family yesterday congregated at a Rosebud family home to remember the man who loved to surf and waterski.

John Guerra told the Herald Sun his brother met Kylie when she was just 17, and they had been together ever since.

Tony, aged in his 40s, had recently stopped working to care full-time for Brittany, who was left with a disability after complications at birth.

"They have been together since she was 17 and he was about 19, and ... have been married a good 20 years or so, and they really loved each other," John said.

"He and Kylie were both water babies, they loved to waterski. He played football for Rosebud, but it was his surfing and the water he loved most. He was loyal to his family, he loved his girls and living with a handicapped child would drive a lot of couples apart, but it made them stronger."

John said his family were thankful the tragedy was not worse as Tony's youngest daughter, Marlie, was staying with a nearby relative at the time of the fire started.

Kylie was taken to hospital in a stable condition.

A SORRENTO family has been torn apart by a tragic house fire that claimed the lives of a father and daughter.

The Guerra family were asleep in their Melbourne Rd home yesterday morning when they awoke to flames and smoke.

Father Tony Guerra, 43, managed to save his 38-year-old wife Kylie, but when he went back to get daughter Brittany, 10, he was unable to reach her.

CFA crews arrived soon after the 7am emergency calls, with ambulance crews and police arriving a short time later.

CFA spokesman Hugo Zoller said Mr Guerra had a heart attack near the front of the house as he tried desperately to reach his daughter.

Paramedic David Llewelyn told Channel 10 News that fire crews tried to resuscitate Mr Guerra on his front lawn.

“After 40 minutes of resuscitation or more the man was unable to be revived and unfortunately died at the scene,” Mr Llewelyn said.

“Fire rescue crews found the young girl’s body in the house and the mother’s been transported up to Frankston Hospital with quite significant smoke inhalation.”

Mrs Guerra was reunited last night with the couple’s youngest daughter who had been staying with family at the time of the fire.

Mr Zoller said more than 25 firefighters fought the blaze, which gutted the house.

CFA fire investigators found the blaze started in the roof of the recently renovated house, and said there were no suspicious circumstances.

I went to school with Britney:-(